Assessment Specialist (25-26 SY)

CHANDLER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

Classification:Certified Exempt

Title: Assessment Specialist

Calendar: 10.5 month

Salary: Certified Professional Salary Schedule

Job Goal: To provide our students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become life-long learners and responsible citizens by: Collecting data, interpreting data, formulating reports and making recommendations based upon research findings to improve district programming. This includes the ability to facilitate and provide support during state and district test windows.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
• Verbal and written skills
• Three years teaching experience
• Three years of experience in standardized testing administration at the site or district level
• Knowledge of state assessment protocols, technology needs and integration of systems utilized for standardized assessment
• Experience in a data oriented working environment including program software knowledge (Access, Excel)
• Manual dexterity to operate business related equipment
• Vision and hearing adequate to exercise job responsibilities in a safe manner
• The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Administrative Certificate desired
• Knowledge of protocols for ACT testing administration
• Knowledge of protocols for NAEP and TIMSS testing administration
• Skills in working with business intelligence tools to build dashboard reports with a variety of data
• Basic understanding of cartography and data-driven mapping
• Knowledge of best practices in database management
• Basic skills in SQL or a programming language
• Basic knowledge of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics
• Ability to visualize data and prepare reports in order to tell the story of data being studied

Core Job Functions:

• Coordinate, organize and schedule state assessments with site-level testing coordinators
• Coordinate, organize and schedule testing cycles for the interim and summative assessments in the new assessment system
• Ability to provide training, professional development and leadership during the implementation of assessment software system
• Respond to inquiries for data and provide the expertise during the inquiry to guide the stakeholders towards a proper inference for making decisions (20%)
• Analyze data (e.g., district, state and federal programs, demographic, grants, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring accuracy and making recommendations based on valid content.
• Skills in working with assessment software systems typically utilized in large districts throughout Arizona
• Knowledge of student information systems, like Infinite Campus, including the ability to construct ad-hoc queries

Physical Requirements 

Positions in this classification typically require: stooping, kneeling, crouching, standing, walking, pushing, reaching, lifting, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions. Employees may be subject to travel, body fluids, fumes, odors, dusts, gases, poor ventilation, workspace restrictions, and intense noise. Employees may be required to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Salary : $75,083 - $81,083